Christmas Music (genre)

— About 3,000 miles south of the North Pole, on the windswept prairie of central Illinois, Mark and Julie Hardy and their 16 reindeer are awaiting Santa and the long winter's nap that follows his visit.

Now is the busiest time of year at Hardy's Reindeer Ranch. Until it closes for the season Dec. 28, tourists of all ages will flock to the ranch to watch, feed and pet the reindeer, which, as the Christmas carol "Up on the Housetop" suggests, really do "click, click, click" as they walk.

It all started in 1995 when Mark Hardy, a former dairy farmer who raises Christmas trees, and his wife, Julie, a sales manager, decided to buy two reindeer from a Michigan...

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— About 3,000 miles south of the North Pole, on the windswept prairie of central Illinois, Mark and Julie Hardy and their 16 reindeer are awaiting Santa and the long winter's nap that follows his visit.
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